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Summary

  • The initial submission of this article was received on December 16th, 2022 and was peer-reviewed by 3 reviewers and the Academic Editor.
  • The Academic Editor made their initial decision on February 28th, 2023.
  • The first revision was submitted on March 24th, 2023 and was reviewed by the Academic Editor.
  • The article was Accepted by the Academic Editor on April 5th, 2023.

Version 0.2 (accepted)

· Apr 5, 2023 · Academic Editor

Accept

Thank you for addressing all of the reviewer comments. This is a well-written manuscript that addresses an important topic. I have assessed this revision without re-inviting the reviewers as all comments have been adequately addressed and I believe this study is ready for publication.

[# PeerJ Staff Note - this decision was reviewed and approved by Jafri Abdullah, a PeerJ Section Editor covering this Section #]

Version 0.1 (original submission)

· Feb 28, 2023 · Academic Editor

Minor Revisions

Dear Author,

Please address the comments from the reviewers carefully.

Thank you,

[# PeerJ Staff Note: Please ensure that all review and editorial comments are addressed in a response letter and any edits or clarifications mentioned in the letter are also inserted into the revised manuscript where appropriate. #]

Reviewer 1 ·

Basic reporting

no comment

Experimental design

please, find attached.

Need some explanation about the experimental design.

Validity of the findings

no comment

Additional comments

It is interesting study.

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Reviewer 2 ·

Basic reporting

The authors has explained concept of temporary nurse clearly including research problem.
In line 107:
please add supporting data to support the claim that psychiatric hospital has a better planning staffing

Line 117:
as the research variable, the definition of "nurses staffing level" should be globally understand. Thus, we recommend add citation to confirm this term.

Experimental design

Design and setting is clear, including variables and measurement technique

Validity of the findings

we recommend authors report data consistently (n, %) for categorical and (mean, SD) for numerical

Additional comments

To much words and pages, we recommend to concise this manuscript

Reviewer 3 ·

Basic reporting

(1) The English language used in this article is good.
(2) The intro & background is sufficient to demonstrate how this work fits into the broader field of knowledge, though it can be better motivated.
(3) Structure conforms to PeerJ standards and discipline norm.
(4) Raw data has been supplied.
(5) The work is not to test any hypotheses. It's self-contained with relevant results.

Experimental design

(1) This research is within aims and scope of the journal.
(2) The research question is well defined, relevant & meaningful. It is clear enough how the research fills an identified knowledge gap.
(3) The investigation is rigorous enough.
(4) The methods described is with sufficient detail & information to replicate.

Validity of the findings

(1) The reliability of the findings is good.
(2) All underlying data have been provided in a way which we can replicate. The results are statistically sound and controlled. There is no robustness check section in this paper.
(3) Conclusions are well stated. They are linked to original research question and limited to supporting results.

Additional comments

This is an interesting and well-written paper. I have the following additional comments:
(1) The authors should clearly explain why a study focused on psychiatric hospitals is meaningful. In the current version, the authors only highlighted the differences between psychiatric hospitals and acute somatic hospitals.
(2) The authors should add one section to conduct robustness checks. For cross-sectional data, there are still several methods such as Heckman selection model to deal with some endogeneity problems.
(3) The authors should carefully check the tables to make sure no typos. For example, in Table 3, the number of observations is not included.

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